DON'T BEAT OUR COCKS!

It is starting to make sense now. I asked in a previous post if the CPD has it in for the football team. It appears they are just abusive jack asses. Please see article below:

A South Carolina offensive lineman claims Columbia police used excessive force while subduing him following a fight with a West Columbia man in Five Points during the weekend.

Gamecocks guard Kevin Young told USC coach Steve Spurrier that police officers hit him multiple times and bloodied his nose before arresting him early Sunday outside of Sharky’s on Harden Street.

Columbia city manager Charles Austin said Monday afternoon that he would investigate whether police acted improperly.

“Now that we have heard this information, certainly I will authorize an internal investigation,” Austin said. “If there’s a formal complaint filed, we will at that point make a determination as to what would be the next step.”

Austin said that no one involved in the incident has contacted his office or the police department claiming excessive force.

Attempts to reach Young, a redshirt freshman from Clearwater, Fla., who has yet to play for the Gamecocks, were unsuccessful.

The 6-foot-6, 320-pound Young is charged with fighting and resisting arrest. The other man, Errol Hewitt James, listed as 6-1 and 195 pounds on the incident report, faces fighting and disorderly conduct charges.

“The story that I’ve heard from Kevin and from a few witnesses is that Kevin basically did not do anything wrong in this situation except try to defend himself from some guy that took a swing at him,” Spurrier said Monday. “I heard some policeman was beating on (Young) while the other one had his hands behind his back, or something. That’s the story we heard.

“I’ll just have to wait until all the facts firmly come in. But I hope this gets investigated pretty well.”

A local sports-talk radio host who witnessed the incident confirmed the version of events that Spurrier says Young told him.

Kevin McCrarey, a co-host on the South Carolina News Network’s SportsTalk show, said he was leaving a nearby bar around 1:30 a.m. when three or four officers ran by him on Harden Street. McCrarey said he saw an officer repeatedly punch one of the combatants, whom he later learned was Young, in the head with a closed fist.

“I think his rights were violated. Just because you get in a fight ... he got beat up by police. I really believe that,” McCrarey said. “I don’t know police procedure, but the guy from behind was just swinging. He must have thrown 10 or 15 punches. Then they got him down, and they were still hitting him.”

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